Deaths
- January 14 - Jeanette MacDonald, 61 American actress, singer
- February 10 - Arnold Manoff, 50 American screenwriter
- February 20 - Fred Immler, 84, German actor
- February 23 - Stan Laurel, 74, British actor
- March 6 - Margaret Dumont, 82, American comedic actress
- March 23 - Mae Murray, 75, American actress
- March 28 - Jack Hoxie, 80, Western actor
- April 8 - Lars Hanson, 78, Swedish actor
- April 10 - Linda Darnell, 41, American actress
- April 30 - Helen Chandler, 58, American actress
- May 5 - John Waters, 71, screenwriter and director
- June 7 - Judy Holliday, 43, American actress
- June 22 - David O. Selznick, 63, American producer
- June 23 - Mary Boland, 85, stage & film actress
- July 24 - Constance Bennett, 60, American actress
- July 28 - Minor Watson, 75, American actor
- August 6 - Nancy Carroll, 61, American actress
- September 8 - Dorothy Dandridge, 42, American actress, singer
- September 27 - Clara Bow, 60, American actress
- October 3 - Zachary Scott, 52, American actor
- October 18 - Henry Travers, 91, British actor
- October 21 - Marie McDonald, 42, American actress
- October 31 - Rita Johnson, 52, American actress
- November 15 - Natalie Kalmus, 77, advisor on film Technicolor process on numerous films
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“On almost the incendiary eve
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—Dylan Thomas (1914–1953)
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—Alison Hawthorne Deming (b. 1946)